31 Days of Horror with the Gutter’s Own Carol!
It’s spookoween time, everybody, and the Gutter’s own Carol is writing about all the movies, series, and other shenanigans she’s up to as part of 31 Days of Horror!
“Nightgowns and Nightmares: Amulet and the Women of Gothic Film”
At Jumpcut Online, Fiona Underhill writes about Gothic horror and recent films directed by women. “Madness and melodrama, obsession, suppression and repression – the questioning of sanity, gas-lighting, confusion over what is real or unreal, not knowing who to trust are also huge elements of Gothic fiction (and […]
“Kathe Koja on Godmothers of Horror: Emily Brontë & Mary Shelley”
“I had a chat with Kathe [Koja]…about the unexplored horror elements in Wuthering Heights, the legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the trailblazing work of Shirley Jackson, particularly The Haunting of Hill House. Enjoy this in-depth exploration of the legacies of badass women in horror with someone who should need no introduction in that […]
The Haunting of Hell House
I try to keep a healthy agnosticism about reboots, remakes, and adaptations. No matter how a story starts, every version that can be made will be, and every version will ultimately be its own thing. Plus, it’s interesting to see what elements of a work translate most persistently […]
Women In Horror Month at Fox Spirit Books
Our friends at Fox Spirit Books are posting a series of a pieces about women in horror for Women In Horror Month. So far there are pieces about Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting Of Hill House by Kate Laity; disability and motherhood in horror by K. Bannerman; and Crimson […]
Agatha Faversham’s Haunted Mansion
One of my favorite Instagram feeds is photographs of abandoned places. I’ve always been drawn to the ghosts of buildings, that residual image of what they once were that lingers around the edges after they fall to ruin. It’s almost as if you can feel it behind you […]
The Cultural Gutter 